Very interesting article. While it deals with very minute life forms,   
   nevertheless, it isn't difficult to understand how this small example of   
   an alternative biochemical makeup may possibly lead to even greater, and   
   more surprising discoveries in the future. It will be very interesting to   
   see how much sci-fi authors have gotten it right over the decades. How   
   long will it be before we discover that carbon-based, oxygen-breathing   
   entities are not the only entities in our neighborhood of the galaxy?   
   Who knows what may exist unrevealed in the deep craters of the Moon, or   
   in the red deserts of Mars, or under the Martian polar ice caps, or in   
   the frozen oceans of our planetary neighbors and moons, or perhaps even   
   in the dense clouds of Venus or Jupiter. Perhaps it isn't that they have   
   been purposely concealed from our sight, but simply that we have been   
   looking for the wrong thing, due to our own arrogance and pitiful lack   
   of understanding. Time will tell...if we have it.  :)   
      
      
      
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